Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] through [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd got through to a girl I said extension two three six and then oh and the feller said er |
| 2 | When they 'd gone through into the lecture hall , I noticed the professor staring after them with a very odd look on his face — a stunned , frozen look . |
| 3 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 4 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 5 | She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment . |
| 6 | They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond . |
| 7 | Before the first week of term was up , awesome tales about the Headmistress , Miss Trunchbull , began to filter through to the newcomers . |
| 8 | This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing . |
| 9 | During the construction of the Blisworth to Peterborough branch line of the old London & Birmingham Railway in 1845 , the engineer and surveyor of the route , one Robert Stephenson , being faced with a hilly terrain near to the villages of Yarwell and Wansford decided to tunnel through as a cutting was not practicable at that time . |
| 10 | So this person thought he was terribly towards the electricity board , and I needed to get through in an emergency , and you ca n't . |
| 11 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 12 | At last the trolleybuses commenced running through to the Crystal Palace on 9 February 1936 . |
| 13 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 14 | It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated . |
| 15 | Indeed it was a very misty and cloudy start , but the sun did break through in the west , the east getting some rain as well as the grey stuff . |
| 16 | We were well stuck into an excellent local red type of mouthwash , Donnaz , when Ino insisted on our sampling a white Pinot Noir from one of the localities I remembered crawling through in the train . |
| 17 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 18 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 19 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 20 | ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ . |
| 21 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 22 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 23 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 24 | The Victorian stoneware ‘ suite ’ from Mr Twyford 's manufactory was decorated with flowers in willow-pattern blue but paint flaked off the walls and the linoleum had worn through to the floorboards . |
| 25 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 26 | Even though it was beginning to recede in her memory , Folly still could n't quite see what she had gone through as a joke . |
| 27 | When he had gone through to the bedroom , tired , shaking , cold , she stripped herself of all the finery — fighting with clasps , pushing and twisting rings . |
| 28 | Evans had gone through into the lounge and was standing leaning against the mantelpiece in the classic pose of grief . |
| 29 | The lake of liquid peat had burst through into the workings beneath it and was deluging into the colliery . |
| 30 | The Marshal had wandered through into the dining-room where lined foolscap and a box of pens and pencils lying between a pair of silver candlesticks suggested that the oak table was used for homework rather than for dining . |